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From the Field
How the Youth of the
Banlieues
See the
Gilets Jaunes
Ahmed & Baptiste & Hachimia & Jeremy & Karima & Lisa-Marie & Louiza & Thibaut & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 April 2020
Do the “Yellow Vests” and the youth of France’s banlieues share a common vision of the inequalities and discrimination...
Essays
Educating Tenants: A Historic Remit of Social Housing
Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 April 2020
In France, the professions of social worker and concierge both emerged in the early 20th century, and both...
Essays
When Measurement Matters: Displacement, Gentrification, Residential Mobility
H. Jacob Carlson
- 14 April 2020
Scholarly studies of displacement resulting from gentrification are inconsistent in what they measure, and omit...
From the Field
When Memory is Confined: Politics of Commemoration on Avenida 26, Bogotá
Violante Torre
- 7 April 2020
After more than five decades of conflict, the Colombian capital, Bogotá, is undergoing processes not just of...
Essays
The New Suburban Secession: A Postfascist Turn in Atlanta’s Cityhood Movement
Coleman Allums & Scott Markley
- 10 March 2020
In this essay, Coleman Allums and Scott Markley analyze a suburban secessionist movement in Atlanta, Georgia. They...
From the Field
From Transit to Settlement. A Mexican Border Town’s Transition from a Transit Space to a Waiting Territory
Isabel Gil-Everaert
- 3 March 2020
Tanapan, a border town in southern Mexico has long been a point of passage for Central American migrants bound for...
From the Field
Unlikely Inter-Class Cooperation in Urbanizing Rural Colombia
Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría
- 25 February 2020
Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría examines a case of rural gentrification outside of Bogotá, Colombia, and shows how...
Reviews
Aubervilliers: Portrait of a Working-Class Suburb
Anaïs Albert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 February 2020
The republication of an early-20th‑century realist novel set in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers brings...
From the Field
A Construction Boom in an Urban Floodplain: Long Island City, Queens, NYC
Christopher Ryan
- 11 February 2020
New York City has encouraged development in Long Island City, Queens, even as the neighborhood has not recovered...
From the Field
Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia
Kathryn Howell & Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 February 2020
High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of...
Essays
New York Tech Dossier: Insecure Frontier Jobs? Staying Relevant in New York’s Tech Ecosystem
Max Papadantonakis
- 21 January 2020
“Frontier” jobs in digital technologies promise lucrative career paths, but Max Papadantonakis’s research suggests...
Essays
New York Tech Dossier: The Declining Significance of Proximity in Venture Capital Investments
Joanna Dressel
- 14 January 2020
Venture capital investment in New York City has increased over the last decade, contributing to the development of...
Essays
New York Tech Dossier: “Innovation Districts” in New York: Contentious Geographies of Growth
Sharon Zukin
- 7 January 2020
Sharon Zukin analyzes how city government in New York has supported concentrations of tech firms—“innovation...
From the Field
Nuits Debout
Across Greater Paris: The Spread of a Political Innovation
Laurent Beauguitte & Nicolas Lambert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 December 2019
As France experiences strikes and demonstrations in protest against pension reforms, we look back to the spring of...
Reviews
Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Ryan M. Good
- 17 December 2019
Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard portrays recent school reform efforts in Chicago through the eyes of those...
Essays
Poverty as a Social Stigma
Axelle Brodiez-Dolino & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 December 2019
The distinction between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor is deeply entrenched, and representations of poverty...
Reviews
Black Homeownership Under Racial Capitalism: A Review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s
Race for Profit
Hilary Botein
- 10 December 2019
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit examines the urban homeownership programs of the 1960s and 1970s, and...
Debates
Diverting Eyes and Bodies: The Management of Homeless Visibility in New York City
Eric Goldfischer
- 19 November 2019
Eric Goldfischer argues that homeless diversion programs in New York City simultaneously divert the bodies of...
From the Field
Culture and the Nighttime Economy: A Conversation with London’s Night Czar and Culture-at-Risk Officer
Amin Ghaziani
- 12 November 2019
Amin Ghaziani describes the high closure rate of LGBTQ nighttime venues in London, and the city’s recognition of...
From the Field
Rio de Janeiro: Storms, Militia, and Urban Development
Leandro Benmergui & Rafael Soares Gonçalves & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 November 2019
The dramatic consequences of storms at the beginning of 2019 in a favela in Rio de Janeiro reveal the ongoing...
Reviews
The Just Transition, Economic Democracy, and the Green New Deal
Evan Casper-Futterman & Jason Spicer
- 5 November 2019
Can participatory and economic democracy in the US support a Green New Deal? Evan Casper‑Futterman and Jason Spicer...
From the Field
Open-Air Auto Shops: Subsistence Jobs in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Collectif Rosa Bonheur & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 October 2019
The informal activities of street mechanics observed by Collectif Rosa Bonheur in northern France attest to a much...
Debates
What Does a Just Housing Plan Look Like? NYC and National Housing Movements Show the Way
Oksana Mironova & Sylvia Morse
- 22 October 2019
How could we develop a housing plan that is not rooted in capitalism? Oksana Mironova and Sylvia Morse describe how...
From the Field
Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition
Avi Garelick
- 15 October 2019
Avi Garelick describes how the imperative for realism in affordable housing production conflicts with the goals of...
From the Field
Right(s) to the City in Hanoi
Divya Leducq & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 October 2019
Over the past decade, urban change has accelerated and transformed the physical, social and symbolic landscapes of...
Reviews
Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons from Morrill and Musheno’s
Navigating Conflict
Andrés Besserer Rayas
- 8 October 2019
Navigating Conflict describes how pupils are able to address conflicts on their own, and how school securitization...
From the Field
National and Urban Politics Converge in Moscow: Will Local Activism Prevail?
Anna Zhelnina
- 1 October 2019
Recent elections in Moscow and across Russia reflect the convergence of local activism and national anti-Kremlin...
From the Field
Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In
J. Revel Sims
- 24 September 2019
Close analysis of eviction patterns in Dane County, Wisconsin, between 2000 and 2016 suggests that tenant poverty...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2019
The Editorial Board
- 17 July 2019
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September...
From the Field
How Can Talking Save Trees?
Léo Magnin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 July 2019
In rural France, tree exchange systems seek to avoiding the felling that typically accompanies exchanges of parcels...
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In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
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Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
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In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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